Rise from a Poor Family: My Martial Arts Counterattack

Chapter 591 The Origin of the Starfall Palace

In the jade slip.

Lin Chen saw an enormous, indescribable boulder covered in runes, piercing through the endless sky and crashing heavily to the ground at a terrifying speed.

The once-solid ground, beneath this boulder, became as fragile as tofu, cracking instantly and revealing a bottomless pit.

Upon seeing this scene, Lin Chen's eyes narrowed. So what he had just witnessed was the appearance of the Starfall Palace's sacred stone. Was this meteorite truly an object from outer space?

However, the next moment, he saw a scene that shocked him.

From within the deep pit, a man slowly rose up.

There are actually people on this meteorite from outer space!
Who is this man?
Lin Chen didn't believe that the man originally lived on this land and was just hit by this boulder. Judging from the terrifying scene when the boulder fell, there was probably no chance of survival for anyone below the Myriad Manifestations Realm. And this man was clearly not a Myriad Manifestations Realm expert.

In the video, the man climbed out of the pit and quickly disappeared. After that, many martial artists appeared in front of the pit, including even experts at the Myriad Manifestations Realm.

Although these powerful individuals tried to enter the deep pit, the most they could manage was to reach three hundred feet.

Then, in a flash, the man who had climbed out of the pit reappeared above it, but soon an old man appeared.

The man and the old man were talking in the scene, but Lin Chen couldn't see their mouths and couldn't tell what they were saying. A few breaths later, the man and the old man started fighting above the deep pit.

"A powerhouse at the Myriad Manifestations Realm!"

Seeing the old man's imposing aura and the resulting changes in the world, Lin Chen's eyes narrowed. He was certain that the old man was a powerful expert at the Myriad Manifestations Realm. The aura and methods he used were very similar to those of Elder Ye and Elder Yin, whom he had seen before.

What shocked Lin Chen even more was that this man, when fighting the old man at the Myriad Manifestations Realm, showed no flow of innate power or martial will. He fought the old man solely with his physical body and did not fall behind.

To be precise, although the man was constantly injured, he became more and more courageous in the fight, like an unkillable cockroach. Lin Chen's gaze fell on the details of the two's battle. When the man was injured in the battle, the blood that splattered on the ground actually smashed into the ground and created a hole more than 10 feet deep.

Lin Chen blinked a few times. With his strength, he could easily create a crater two or three feet deep with a flick of his finger, let alone a one-foot-deep crater.

But the blood of the man in front of us was spilled during the battle. Even if propelled by the energy of the battle, a single drop of blood could not possibly create a crater ten feet deep on the ground.

Unless... this drop of blood is as indestructible as innate qi.

How could human blood achieve this? Even Lin Chen himself, whose Immortal Body had reached the fifth level and whose body had reached a terrifyingly indestructible level, was still referring to the skin, bone marrow, and even muscles. His blood was still liquid blood.

The difference lies in the fact that one's own qi and blood are dozens of times more concentrated than those of an ordinary innate martial artist.

Why is there such a difference in this man's blood?
By now, Lin Chen could see that the man wasn't even a martial artist; he was only fighting this Myriad Manifestations Realm expert with his physical strength alone, and all his outbursts originated from his physical body.

This is what shocked Lin Chen the most: could the human body really be so strong that it could be seen as a battle between powerful beings at the Myriad Manifestations Realm who control the heavens and earth?
The battle lasted for a quarter of an hour, and ultimately no victor emerged. It ended with the departure of the powerful expert at the Myriad Manifestations Realm.

Clearly, even a powerful expert at the Myriad Manifestations Realm gave up when faced with an invincible cockroach.

After the old man left, the man, covered in blood, jumped directly from the top of the pit.

That's right, it's jumping!

For a moment, Lin Chen almost thought this person was going to commit suicide, but when he thought about the strength of the other person's body, he realized that he was overthinking it.

As he expected, the man appeared in the next scene, completely unharmed, a stark contrast to his previous injured state.

Such powerful healing ability?

Lin Chen's pupils contracted sharply. Even he himself would need at least a day to recover from such a serious injury, but based on his observation of the passage of time in these scenes, at most a quarter of an hour had passed.

In just fifteen minutes, he recovered from what was tantamount to a near-death experience. His body's self-healing ability far surpassed his own.

There's really no way to compare people.

A bitter smile flashed across Lin Chen's face. However, if his thoughts were to spread, he feared he would incur the envy of countless martial artists in the Yan Dynasty.

Such a life-threatening injury, unless there is a heaven-defying elixir, will not heal in less than ten days or several months.

What kind of cultivation technique does this person practice?
No, I doubt any martial arts technique could reach that level.

Lin Chen narrowed his eyes slightly. He was no longer a novice in martial arts. Although he had not been cultivating for long, he had reached the peak of the fifth level of the Innate Realm, and his strength was comparable to that of the sixth level of the Innate Realm. He still had an understanding and vision of martial arts.

All the cultivation techniques of the Yan Dynasty, even the most advanced ones, such as the Canglan Divine Scripture of the Canglan Sect, primarily involve the use of the energy of heaven and earth, borrowing the power of the universe. However, relying solely on one's own physical body, it's unlikely that any energy could achieve this, let alone a cultivation technique.

An absurd thought popped into Lin Chen's mind, but he immediately smiled and thought, "Why am I thinking so much? I'll probably see the answer soon."

In the scene, as the man's injuries heal, he witnesses how this seemingly indestructible creature transforms the deep pit into a healing sanctuary.

The man emerged from the pit, but returned covered in wounds. However, he was completely healed when he climbed out of the pit again.

Healed, out of the pit, injured, back in the pit...

This cycle continued until one day, he saw the man fighting a martial artist at the Myriad Manifestations Realm outside the deep pit. But this time, the man was no longer simply relying on his physical strength; his every move and attack clearly displayed the fighting style of a martial artist from the Yan Dynasty.

For the first time in this battle, the man was not covered in wounds.

After that, the man was no longer covered in wounds whenever he appeared. The last time he appeared in the pit, he was accompanied by three teenagers.

When Lin Chen saw one of the boys with two prominent, horn-like features on his forehead, his pupils constricted.

When he first arrived in the Yan Dynasty, his master gave him a jade slip introducing the major powers of the Yan Dynasty, which mentioned the Starfall Palace. In the information about the Starfall Palace, there was an introduction to the founder of the Starfall Palace.

The founder of the Starfall Palace had an unusual appearance and a prominent skull, which led to him being ridiculed by his peers...

The jade slip didn't contain much information about the founder of the Starfall Heavenly Palace; it only gave a general overview of his life. However, Lin Chen still remembered the distinctive feature: his prominent skull.

This is the sacred ground of the Starfall Palace, and the appearance of another young man with a magnificent skull makes Lin Chen think twice.

If this young man is truly the founder of the Starfall Heavenly Palace, then how astonishing must his background be?

Was he the master of the founder of Starfall Heavenly Palace?
The following scene confirmed Lin Chen's guess.

After the man brought back the three boys, he had them try to enter the deep pit. In the end, only the boy with the jagged skull descended to a height of four hundred feet.

The following scenes changed very quickly, as if they were sped up.

The man lived in the deep pit. Of the three boys, only the one with the prominent skull would occasionally go down into the pit. Over time, the other two boys also disappeared.

The scene shifts, the boy grows into a young man and then into a middle-aged man, and in the blink of an eye, the man finally succumbs to the passage of time and passes away.

After the man passed away, this middle-aged man with a prominent skull never stepped into the pit again. When he reappeared in the pit, he was an old man with a full head of white hair, and he was accompanied by several teenagers whose appearances were somewhat different from ordinary people.

"The founder of the Starfall Heavenly Palace had a different appearance, so all his disciples were people with very different appearances."

Lin Chen murmured softly, recalling the description in the jade slip. The outside world speculated that the founder of the Starfall Heavenly Palace chose disciples with unusual appearances because he himself was like that, and out of love for his family, he adopted this standard for disciples.

But Lin Chen is now certain that this guess was wrong.

The only criterion this patriarch had for accepting disciples was whether they could enter the deep pit. Unfortunately, none of his disciples were able to step into the three-hundred-foot-deep pit.

"It is a pity that I, as a disciple, am incompetent and have failed to find a suitable successor for my master until today when I finally met you, young friend."

Just as Lin Chen was looking at the screen, the entire screen suddenly disappeared, and then an old man appeared in front of Lin Chen.

Upon seeing the figure of the Starfall Heavenly Palace patriarch appear, Lin Chen did not show any surprise. Back on Canglan Island, the sect leader of the Qingtian Sect was able to retain his divine sense, and the Qingtian Sect was not even considered a first-rate power in the Yan Dynasty. At least it was not mentioned in the jade slip given by his master. It was not surprising that the Starfall Heavenly Palace patriarch, who had passed away many years ago, could reappear in front of him with such means.

"Lin Chen, a disciple of the Canglan Sect, greets Senior."

Upon hearing Lin Chen introduce himself as belonging to the Canglan Sect, the patriarch of the Starfall Heavenly Palace did not show any change in expression just because Lin Chen was not his disciple.

"Canglan Sect..."

The old man's face showed a look of nostalgia: "Young friend, you do have a good background."

Good family background?
Lin Chen found it strange. The Starfall Heavenly Palace was a super sect on the same level as the Canglan Sect. How could its founding ancestor say such a thing?
However, the founder of Starfall Palace did not give Lin Chen any further reason to think about it, and directly dropped a bombshell that made Lin Chen's heart race.

"Young friend, my master left behind a legacy, but I am too dull-witted to inherit it. The fact that you are here today means that you are the one destined to receive it. The place where my master passed on the legacy is a hundred feet below. Please come in!"

P.S.: I'm having writer's block. Please allow me some time to think.

(End of this chapter)